Hi
I suspect the main reason why koha is described as "open source" is that NZ seems to be one of the few places with a national organisation for "open source" but not one for "free software" promotion.
No not really - the NZOSS society wasn't really featuring at the time we made the decision on what to call it. I am aware that almost always there is cost to a library to implement Koha - particularly to a big public library (always our goal). So we thought that Open Source was more "accurate" than Free. We also are aware that large organisations very much evaluate software on a "you get what you pay for" basis - so we thought that *not* saying Koha was Free might at least get us a look in. At the time we were the first Open Source library system - but not the first Free one - so to get that Kudos, we wanted to be Open Source. Cheers Rachel_____________________________________________________________ Rachel Hamilton-Williams Katipo Communications WEBMISTRESS ph 021 389 128 or +64 04 934 1285 mailto:rachel@katipo.co.nz PO Box 12487, Wellington http://www.katipo.co.nz New Zealand Koha Open Source Library System http://www.koha.org